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Why does the CreateProcess function do autocorrection?

June 23, 2005 Jun 23, 2005 06/23/05

Raymond Chen

Programs that weren't designed to handle long file names would make mistakes like taking the path to the executable and writing it into the registry, unaware that the path might contain a space that needs quoting. (Spaces—while technically legal—were extremely rare in SFN paths.) The CreateProcess function had to decide whether to...